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Quotes About Momentary

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.
~ Chris Coleman
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.
~ Richard Ford
Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted
~ Kate Atkinson
The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.
~ Ben Shahn
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
~ Samuel Butler
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
~ Dogen
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
~ William Shakespeare
Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.
~ Matthew Donnelly
Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
~ William Butler Yeats
tried to hold the feeling but it was warm as new bath water and just as hard to hold.
~ William H. Gass
E la cosa incredibile è che ho visto come fuggivi senza muoverti dal tuo posto, sfruttando quella momentanea distrazione per sparire.
~ David Grossman
O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
~ William Shakespeare
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, "standing still".
~ Maxwell Maltz
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
~ Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.
~ Ahmed Mostafa
Happiness...I see you..You are that wave that comes and goes...always fast...and always leaving a gap behind...
~ Viorica Dragotel
In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He's just a flash in the pants.
~ Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess